You’ll be expected to jump into our technology stack and start shipping code immediately, making an impact on the direction of the product, team, and company. This role requires working closely with stakeholders, including the CEO and management team, to support our company vision and product roadmap. You will be contributing to the entire technology stack, from back-end services to single-page web applications.

The problems you will help solve include:
• Improving the performance of web pages
• Enhancing the stability and scalability of the system
• Securing sensitive information in a client side application
• Caching of highly dynamic data Continue reading →

Interested in internship with an innovative Event Technology company? If yes, here is a good opportunity!

Based in the greater Boston area, ePosterBoards LLC (www.eposterboards.com) is a privately-owned event technology service company that provides digital e-poster presentation solutions (i.e., large-format flat panel HD display screens and related equipment) along with webhosting and eVoting, as a rental service for biomedical, scientific, educational and other meetings and conventions in the United States.

ePosterBoards is seeking a MEAN Stack Event Applications Development intern/part-time employee through the spring semester. We are implementing products and services in a full stack javascript environment, with a focus on Node.js and Angular 1.x. You will assist in maintaining and expanding the current code base, and will have the opportunity to provide professional input towards the direction of our products.

You will be part of a small team, working with real requirements to bring real solutions to market. Build your resume and put your education to work in a dynamic environment. You will have a direct and immediate impact on our business and operations. Continue reading →

Large banks like JPMorgan have always had big data, but in a letter to shareholders released Wednesday, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon likened the difference between yesterday’s and today’s big data to the difference between a rotary phone and a cellphone.

“To best utilize our data assets and spur innovation, we have built our own extraordinary in-house big data capabilities – we think as good as any in Silicon Valley – populated with more than 200 analysts and data scientists, which we call Intelligent Solutions,” Dimon wrote.

Dimon outlined at least five ways the firm has incorporated big data into improving business processes. In the corporate and investment bank, big data is being deployed to improve operational efficiency by analyzing errors. In custody for example, the firm uses big data to identify and find the root cause of breaks in processes or variances in the net asset values of funds. The result has reduced the operational burden and improved client service, Dimon wrote. Continue reading →

S Naren, CIO – ICICI Prudential AMC, shares his outlook on the equity markets for 2016, the problems the markets are facing currently and explains why investing in the current bear phase will be rewarding for investors.

Notes: Just for the record, S Naren has been one of the few fund managers who has been very successful in getting broad market direction right. In Jan 2015 he called for investors to move into bonds and wait for markets to stabilize and earnings growth to come through. In Aug 2013, when Nifty was at 5150, he was of clear view that investors should buy Nifty or broad based mutual funds to benefit from upswing as valuations were crushed. That was also a very valuable assessment.

In this valuable video, George Soros shares his lifetime learnings on Financial Markets. Some of the key messages are:
1. In business cycles, Earnings (EPS) rise will lead Valuation(P/E) rise, and Earnings (EPS) fall will lead Valuation(P/E) fall because investors tend to extrapolate the present into the future.
2. Whatever is known to the majority, can not create profits (competitive advantage).
3. Markets discount all the known things. The profits are in the unknown (events of the future), which are not yet discounted by the market.